Engineering artificial photosynthetic life-forms through endosymbiosis
The endosymbiotic theory posits that chloroplasts in eukaryotes arise from bacterial endosymbionts. Here, the authors engineer the yeast/cyanobacteria chimeras and show that the engineered cyanobacteria perform chloroplast-like functions to support the growth of yeast cells under photosynthetic cond...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2022-04-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29961-7 |
| Summary: | The endosymbiotic theory posits that chloroplasts in eukaryotes arise from bacterial endosymbionts. Here, the authors engineer the yeast/cyanobacteria chimeras and show that the engineered cyanobacteria perform chloroplast-like functions to support the growth of yeast cells under photosynthetic conditions. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |